Literacy: Oral Language Development
Directions Introduction In this exercise, you will identify one strength and two weaknesses in the oral language development of a student for whom English is a new language. You will describe two developmentally appropriate teaching strategies, other than teacher correction, for building upon an identified strength or for addressing identified weaknesses in order to further the student’s oral language development. You will be asked to respond to two two-part prompts. Criteria for Scoring To satisfy the highest level of the scoring rubric, your responses must provide clear, consistent, and convincing evidence of the following: - an accurate identification of one strength and two weaknesses in a student’s oral language development; - tightly connected examples of the strength and weaknesses from the conversational transcript to support your identification; -an in-depth description of two developmentally appropriate teaching strategies, other than teacher correction, connected to the identified strength or weakness(es) in the student’s oral language development; and -an appropriate rationale for using these strategies. Scenario Below is a transcript of a conversation between a six year old student and her teacher. The student comes from an average income home with educated parents. She has attended preschool since the age of four. T=teacher S=student T=Good morning, Linda. Did you enjoy our field trip to the zoo yesterday? S=es, Miss Mith, I lozes the zoo! T= I love the zoo, too! My favorite animal is the zebra. What’s yours? S= I lozes the zebras, onkey, and ions. T= Did you show you mom the picture of you with the lions? S= Es! Mommy waz ….zhe say…Oh my! T= So, your mommy was surprised to see you by the picture. Did you tell her about the lions? S= I zay, …ions are loud…and they…they are yellow and ig, very ig! T= Yes. Lions are loud and yellow and big.
Prompts 1) Identify two issues with the student’s oral language development. 2) List a strategy you would use to help the student improve in each area and a rational for each of the strategies. 3) Reflect on how this child’s needs may impact her learning and achievement throughout school.
Created by
Patrick Ledesma
, 2007
Prompts from
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
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